17 July 2018: One-day workshop "Investigating stance constructions", organised in the context of ISLE 5 (Fifth International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English), University College London. Workshop convenors: Gunther Kaltenböck, María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya.

17-20 July 2018:ISLE 5 (Fifth International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English), University College London (UK):

7-11 August 2017: Belén Méndez-Naya, "Of right heirs and right idiots: A historical account of the intensifying adjective right" [paper within the workshop Beyond the well-known: current foci and issues in research on intensification], Methods in Dialectology XVI, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Tokyo.

Cristina Blanco-García: "Expanding the inventory of adverbial subordinators: Early Modern English ephemeral causal markers"

Noelia Castro-Chao: “Impersonal constructions in Early Modern English: A case study of long (for)”

Daniela Pettersson-Traba: “A diachronic account of the behavioral profiles of fragrant, perfumed, scented, and sweet-smelling in American English: A pilot study”

Mario Serrano-Losada: “The emergence of mirative end up and the role of analogy”

Iván Tamaredo: “A study of subject omission in three varieties of English: A multifactorial analysis”

4 March 2017: Cristina Lastres-López, “Comparing if-clauses in English with their Spanish and French equivalents: A corpus-based study across genres”, 14th Corpus Linguistics in the South Conference. Corpus Linguistics and Multilingualism, Birkbeck, University of London (United Kingdom).

26-28 October 2016: Teresa Fanego, "Making one's way through the history of the Intransitive Motion Construction and the Way-construction", VCC Symposium 2016 (International Symposium on Verbs, Clauses and Constructions), University of La Rioja [plenary lecture].

9-10 June 2016: Daniela Pettersson-Traba, "A diachronic behavioral profile study of near-synonyms in American English: Adjectives as a case in point", IV Encontro da Mocidade Investigadora, University of Santiago de Compostela.

10-11 December 2015:Daniela Pettersson, "Is it fragrant, perfumed, scented, or sweet-smelling? A preliminary diachronic corpus-based behavioral profile study of the near-synonyms in American English, with a focus on collocational behavior", II Jornadas de Iniciación a la Investigación Lingüística,University of Extremadura.

23 October 2015: Teresa Fanego, (plenary lecture) "On the early history of the English motion construction The coach rumbled back to town", Symposium on Complementation, University of Tampere (Finland).

2-4 July 2015: Carlos Prado-Alonso, "On crossing borders between grammar and text: The role of verbal anaphors in textual variation", GRATO 2015 (4th International Conference on Grammar and Text), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal).

26 November 2014: Tania de Dios, "Walking on the margins of intransitivity: A study of unexpressed objects in English", English Language Research Group, University of Edinburgh (UK).

13 November 2014: Cristina Blanco-García, (invited presentation) "On the notion of ephemerality in marking subordination: A diachronic account", (Post-)Doctoral Research Colloquium, University of Freiburg (Germany).

11–14 September 2014: Teresa Fanego, "'The ladies all sitting in the open air, exposes them to great inconveniences': The role of free adjuncts and absolutes in the formation of ACC-ing gerundives", 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland).

Paloma Núñez-Pertejo & Ignacio Palacios: "'Go up to Miss Thingy'. 'He's probably like a whatshit or something'. Placeholders in focus: The differences in use between teenagers and adults in Spoken English"

Cristina Suárez-Gómez & Elena Seoane: "Grammatical variation in written and spoken World Englishes: A comparison of the ICE corpora"

8-13 September 2013: Cristina Suárez-Gómez & Elena Seoane, "Pragmatic and cognitive determinants of grammatical variation in World Englishes",
13th International Conference of Pragmatics, Indian Institute of Technology (ITT), New Delhi.

5-9 August 2013: María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya, "Secondary grammaticalization in clause combining: Minor declarative complementizers in English as a case in point" [paper within the workshop Secondary Grammaticalization and Other Stage Processes in Grammaticalization], 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL21), University of Oslo (Norway).

Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "On the colloquialisation of genres, or the 'drift' to more oral styles: phrasal verbs in focus"

María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "Epistemic parentheticals with seem: Late Modern
English in focus" [invited papers, within the workshop Late Modern English syntax in its linguistic and
socio-historical context]

24 May 2012: Paula Rodríguez-Puente talked on "Phrasal verbs in ARCHER 3.1: Notes on register and style" at one of the research seminars organized at VARIENG (Centre of Excellence for the Study of Variation, Contacts and
Change in English), University of Helsinki.

19-21 April 2012: Mario Serrano-Losada: "'It's up to you, like': On the ubiquity and distribution of clause-final like in Irish English", XXX AESLA International Conference, University of Lleida.

17 November 2011: Carlos Prado-Alonso lectured on "A functional analysis of some neglected verb-second XVS constructions in English" at the Linguistic Circle, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh.

9 February 2011: Carlos Prado-Alonso gave a presentation on "A cognitive approach to Subject-dependent XVS word-order" at one of the meetings of the Syntax & Semantics Research Group of the Department of Linguistics and English Language of the University of Edinburgh.

2 February 2011: at the symposium I Jornadas Doctorales de Castilla-La Mancha (Ciudad Real, University of Castilla-La Mancha), Fátima Faya presented a poster on "Marcadores pragmáticos en Inglés Moderno Tardío: de pray a please en el acto de habla de peticiones".

30 November 2010: Paula Rodríguez-Puente talked on “Some issues about English phrasal verbs” at the Langwidge Sandwidge seminar, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.

23rd November 2010: invited research seminar by María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya on "At the crossroads of complementation and adverbial subordination: Intralinguistic and crosslinguistic considerations", SOAS Department of Linguistics, University of London.

16 November 2010: María José López-Couso gave a talk on "Tracing the early history of namely: From particulariser to marker of expository apposition" at the Langwidge Sandwidge seminars organized by the Dept. of Linguistics and English Languageof the University of Manchester.

11-13 November 2010: at GRAMIS (International Conference on
Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification), María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya presented a paper on “Evidential parentheticals with like in Present-day English: Grammaticalization and/or (inter)subjectification at work?”. The conference, held in Brussels, was co-organized by the Universities of Antwerp, Ghent, Hanover, Leuven, and Louvain-la-Neuve.

22-23 October 2010: Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras talked "On the role of language contact in the rise of exemplifying markers in English" at the Joint Advanced Studies Group in Linguistics (JASGIL) 2010, University of Basel.

12 October 2010: Zeltia Blanco-Suárez talked on "The origin and grammaticalisation of the intensifier deadly in English" at the Langwidge Sandwidge seminar, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester.

18-20 September 2010: Sixth International Gender and Language Association Conference, Tsuda College (Tokyo). Cristina Suárez-Gómez presented a paper, jointly with Laura Camargo-Fernández and Magdalena Romera-Ciria (Univ. of the Balearic Islands), on
"The multimodal implicature: how gender is constructed through image and text in
advertisements".

Vera Vázquez-López: "Doublets and nominalization in Early Modern scientific English"

16 April 2010: María José López-Couso gave an invited talk on "Grammar building: On the role of
grammaticalization in language change" at the III Seminario Internacional 'Nuevos Enfoques en el
Análisis Filológico de Textos', University of Murcia.

23-27 November 2009: at the international conference Darwin09, 150 Years after Darwin: From Molecular Evolution to Language, held at the University of the Balearic Islands, Lucía Loureiro-Porto presented a poster, jointly with Xavi Castelló, Víctor M. Eguíluz and Maxi San Miguel, on "Bilingualism, language death and language birth in language contact situations".

12-14 November 2009: at the 33rd AEDEAN Conference (University of Cádiz), Cristina Suárez-Gómez convened a workshop on “Recovering the Northern dialects in the early history of English”, with presentations by Cristina herself, Sara Pons-Sanz (University of Nottingham), Julia Fernández-Cuesta (University of Seville), and Nieves Rodri­guez-Ledesma (University of Seville). Other presentations by members of the VLCG team included the following:

Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras: “The origin and evolution of including and included as appositional markers of exemplification”

Lucía Loureiro-Porto: “Epistemicity and grammaticalization in English necessity verbs and verbo-nominal constructions”

Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras: “On the grammaticalisation of including and included as markers of exemplification”

Vera Vázquez-López: “Nominalizations in Early Modern English: Uses and development”

8-11 October 2009: presentation by Paula Rodríguez-Puente on “And new meanings turned up: The development of new meanings of English phrasal verbs with up. Evidence from the Helsinki Corpus and ARCHER1”. AACL 2009 - American Association for Corpus Linguistics, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada).

Cristina Suárez-Gómez: “Development of dependent structures: an instance from the history of English”

Nila Vázquez: “Modality and stance in the Modern English section of the Corpus of Early English Recipes” [joint paper with Francisco Alonso Almeida]

20-24 April 2009: invited seminar presentations by Nila Vázquez on "The influence of French upon English during the Middle Ages" and "How to produce a critical edition". Department of English, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland).

Lucía Loureiro-Porto: “On the grammaticalization of the periphrastic modals of necessity in English”

Paula Rodríguez-Puente: "The effects of lexicalization, grammaticalization and idiomatization on phrasal verbs in English: the case of phrasal combinations with get"

1-4 July 2008: plenary presentations by Cristina Suárez-Gómez and Lucía Loureiro-Porto at the Summer Course Espacios urbanos y expresión cultural: El inglés como lengua franca, University of the Balearic Islands. They lectured on the following topics, respectively:

Milagros Chao: "Dual-form adverbs and genre: The figurative and literal use of adverbial variants"

María José López-Couso & Belén Méndez-Naya: "More on the complementizer use of if and though in the history of English"

3-5 April 2008: presentation by Paula Rodríguez-Puente on the topic "Is there a prototypical phrasal verb? On the relationship between phrasal verbs and the processes of grammaticalization, lexicalization and idiomatization", XXVI AESLA Conference (Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics), University of Almería.

2-4 April 2008: invited seminar presentations by Nila Vázquez on the topics "Dialectal variation in the 17th century: examples from the Corpus of Salamanca" and "The use of electronic resources in the class of historical linguistics". Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex.

27-28 March 2008: presentation by Cristina Suárez-Gómez on
"The relevance of Northern dialects in the history of
English", 3rd Northern Englishes Workshop, University of Salford, UK.

13-15 March 2008: AACL 2008 (Conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics), Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah:

Milagros Chao: "The OED as a corpus: Looking for dual-form adverbs"

Iria Pastor-Gómez: "On the development of nouns as internal dependents in the contemporary English Noun Phrase"

20 April 2007: poster presentation by Milagros Chao on "Short/shortly: A dual-form adverb which does not fall short of expectations", 16th International Postgraduate Linguistics Conference, University of Manchester.

14-16 December 2006: at the 30th International AEDEAN Conference, held at the University of Huelva, Belén Méndez-Naya convened a very successful theme session on Historical Linguistics. It included presentations by Milagros Chao, Fátima Faya, María José López-Couso, Lucía Loureiro-Porto, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo and Cristina Suárez-Gómez. At the same meeting Iria Pastor presented a paper in the theme session on Lexis.

María José López-Couso: “On the early history of namely: A lifetime of linguistic competition”.

Belén Méndez-Naya: “On the history of downright”.

Nila Vázquez: “Editing the Tale of Gamelyn: Steps and results”.

28 August-1 September 2006: two VLCG members presented papers at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Bremen, Germany:

Teresa Fanego: "Developments in English sentential complements: A processing-based explanation”.

Carlos Prado-Alonso: “The iconic function of full inversion in fiction”.

21-25 August 2006: Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso, Lucía Loureiro, Belén Méndez-Naya and Cristina Suárez-Gómez presented papers at 14 ICEHL (Fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics), held at the University of Bergamo, Italy.

24-28 May 2006: joint paper by María José López-Couso and Javier Pérez-Guerra on "Negative contraction in Modern and Contemporary English: Simultaneous, intersecting and independent forces", 27th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 27 ), University of Helsinki.

6-8 April 2006: at DELS (Directions in English Language Studies), University of Manchester, Teresa Fanego gave a paper entitled “Gerund clauses are shorter. Or: Dispelling the myths about the semantic differences between subject gerundives and infinitivals”.